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he says the pentagon's wasting a lot of money and he's found examples in the pentagon spending money on things like a study for a question of did jesus die for cling-ones, too. they've sponsored a discussion series in which they talk about the implications for christianity of the discovery of extraterrestrial life. they also financed studies of a new type of beef jerky that's flat, kind of like a fruit roll-up instead of round like a slim jim. all sorts of other details in this report. but in all seriousness, what coburn has done here is sort of laid out the pentagon's overhead budget just the overhead next to the gdp of several major nations. take a look at where the pentagon's overhead ranks. if you ranked it pass a country, it is just below portugal there and just above the country of israel if you look at dod overhead as a separate country. then coburn has some recommendations here for key areas to make savings, including canceling non-military research and development like that cling-on conference. phasing out dod schools that they run and tuition assistance program and a couple
he says the pentagon's wasting a lot of money and he's found examples in the pentagon spending money on things like a study for a question of did jesus die for cling-ones, too. they've sponsored a discussion series in which they talk about the implications for christianity of the discovery of extraterrestrial life. they also financed studies of a new type of beef jerky that's flat, kind of like a fruit roll-up instead of round like a slim jim. all sorts of other details in this report. but in...
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what's the level of pentagon spending. the republicans have a totally different view on entitlement. then there still is the revenue battle. so i hope they do, but if they don't, i do not want to see congress once again blink and just evade its responsibility by pretending that this is something that can be kicked down the road. >> where are you specifically willing to compromise and where are you not willing to compromise on this issue? >> well, i'm willing to compromise everywhere. there were 100 of us in the house. 60 democrats and 40 republicans who sent a letter to the super committee when they were trying to come up with 1.2 trillion inn in debt reduction that said, go big. go for $4 trillion. we had democrats saying that that meant we had to have reforms in the way we do our entitlements, it had republicans saying we had to include revenues because we obviously knew that the only framework that has the potential for political and substantial success is with everything on the table. and that's the key. if everything'
what's the level of pentagon spending. the republicans have a totally different view on entitlement. then there still is the revenue battle. so i hope they do, but if they don't, i do not want to see congress once again blink and just evade its responsibility by pretending that this is something that can be kicked down the road. >> where are you specifically willing to compromise and where are you not willing to compromise on this issue? >> well, i'm willing to compromise...
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of that controlling health care costs and going after some other necessary areas of spending such as pentagon spending, you'd really make a dent in the deficit but you don't do it without serious revenue and just raising taxes on the rich is not going to get you very far. >> it is interesting, too, dan. i hate taxes. my property taxes have gone up. even as the value of my house has gone down. sales tax has gone up. no politics seems to know or have the guts to say. since 1980 the median federal income tax rate has dropped by over 50%. we paid 10.5% in 1980 and now with deductions we're the 4.5%. the middle class is not being taxed to death with federal income taxes. they may be getting whacked with other stuff but you'll agree it is not federal intomorrcome tax. most families that earn $100,000 and have four children pay zilch. >> i don't think the answer is to sort of drag them into the swamp with the upper income people who are getting punished. here's one other thing for your viewers. every budget deal that we've had since 1980 where we had grand bargains with taxes on the table, the defic
of that controlling health care costs and going after some other necessary areas of spending such as pentagon spending, you'd really make a dent in the deficit but you don't do it without serious revenue and just raising taxes on the rich is not going to get you very far. >> it is interesting, too, dan. i hate taxes. my property taxes have gone up. even as the value of my house has gone down. sales tax has gone up. no politics seems to know or have the guts to say. since 1980 the median...
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world as a leader because it can't manage its own finances, and because of the implications for the pentagon budg budget. going over that cliff is an outcome that has to be avoided. at the same time, in saying that, it's an outcome that has to be avoided, that can't become a license for terror. that can't become a license that whoever is most unreasonable gets their way because we have to avoid going over the cliff. i think a compromise will be found. >> what do you think is most important for the next treasury secretary? we know that tim geithner said he's going to stay until the fiscal cliff issues are complete. but then i've been reporting on this network a number of times that i think larry fink wants that job. there's a bit of a horse race going on. who do you think gets it, and what are the most important skill sets? >> maria, you know from a long experience of having me on this show that i stay out of questions of personality. look, the most important attribute of treasury secretary is the confidence of the president. the president should have in that position whoever he has the most
world as a leader because it can't manage its own finances, and because of the implications for the pentagon budg budget. going over that cliff is an outcome that has to be avoided. at the same time, in saying that, it's an outcome that has to be avoided, that can't become a license for terror. that can't become a license that whoever is most unreasonable gets their way because we have to avoid going over the cliff. i think a compromise will be found. >> what do you think is most...
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also today the pentagon released a new timeline of the response to the attack showing it took more than 14 hours for first u.s. military unit to arrive in libya after the attack. all right. >> joining me now is syndicated radio talk show host john bachelor. john, welcome back. david petraeus is a great american, an admired american. now he has to resign from the cia, why, john? what is the meaning of this? what is the timing of this? >> i am told by several sources it was not beauty killed the beast, larry. it was benghazi. mr. petraeus misled, i'm told. misled an important committee on the hill and he did not want to return to that committee as director of the central intelligence. >> so you're saying that the extra marital affair is not the reason? it's the reason he's cited, but you're saying? fact, that's not the case? there's a whole history of these things in spy circles and secret services and blackmail and you're saying that ain't what happened? >> i'm surprised at the timing and the timing tells us a deal. i am told, larry, this is my best information that mr. be petraeus has b
also today the pentagon released a new timeline of the response to the attack showing it took more than 14 hours for first u.s. military unit to arrive in libya after the attack. all right. >> joining me now is syndicated radio talk show host john bachelor. john, welcome back. david petraeus is a great american, an admired american. now he has to resign from the cia, why, john? what is the meaning of this? what is the timing of this? >> i am told by several sources it was not beauty...
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now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon who worked for us in the middle east for years, your thoughts on the abrupt resignation of general petraeus? >>reporter: i was shocked. i have known general petraeus since the beginning of the surge in iraq. one of my first assignments on this beat at the pentagon was to go to iraq and he had just been assigned there in 2007. i want to tell you what i know about him as a person. he is a man of intense moral fiber. when i was sick with cancer he would write notes that would check on me as well as many other -- at time he was responsible for the war in afghanistan and i saw him at numerous wounded warrior events and he would take hours and hours with the warriors. when i came back the first interview i came back after a year off for cancer treatment, i was invited to afghanistan and i had an interview with him when he first took over in afghanistan. i have phone him for a long-term. if you look at his history he married the superintendent's daughter at west point. when he was a cadet at west point holily was a superintendent's daughter and he was
now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon who worked for us in the middle east for years, your thoughts on the abrupt resignation of general petraeus? >>reporter: i was shocked. i have known general petraeus since the beginning of the surge in iraq. one of my first assignments on this beat at the pentagon was to go to iraq and he had just been assigned there in 2007. i want to tell you what i know about him as a person. he is a man of intense moral fiber. when i was sick with cancer he...
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official washington this morning totally distracted by this petraeus scandal which is affecting the pentagon and the military so everybody's got sort of one eyeball on the fiscal cliff and one eyeball on this epic scandal that's breaking out over at the pentagon. >> did "the washington post" steal this "in the line of booty"? >> i didn't see that in "the post" this morning, that seems like a "daily news" classic. >> it has elmo, but "sister act." it's a whole separate issue. >> the question with this sex scandal that's going on right now is who is this woman jill kelley. she had some weird relationship with general petraeus, whether it was physical or not. she had a twin, she was the tampa socialite apparently threatening to paula broadwell who was petraeus' mistress. >> identical twin? >> apparently yes. if you see pictures of them side by side they appear to be identical twins. >> that's a whole new level if you got twins involved you got to admit that andrew, right? >> this scandal has every possible element. >> twins, the whole, you know what i'm saying. >> yes, that is true. but one oth
official washington this morning totally distracted by this petraeus scandal which is affecting the pentagon and the military so everybody's got sort of one eyeball on the fiscal cliff and one eyeball on this epic scandal that's breaking out over at the pentagon. >> did "the washington post" steal this "in the line of booty"? >> i didn't see that in "the post" this morning, that seems like a "daily news" classic. >> it has elmo, but...
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we are alive at the pentagon with the latest. cheryl: retail sales falling as we head into the holy grail of profits. black friday and the christmas shopping season. we have two analysts with the stocks to buy the stocks to dump. dennis: nicole petallides, so the dow turned lower, nicole. nicole: at least it looks like they have been dumping them more than buying them lately, cheryl and dennis. down almost 60 points on the dow jones industrial. we recoup some losses we saw earlier today, but the bank index has been under pressure. the truth is if you talk about the fiscal cliff, that is something that ways that investors minds. it is a great time to get in. play the market to a certain extent. at the same time there are those who are very worried. hole in the dow jones industrial at least helping it. cisco is a winner. that has been a stellar performer really bucking the trend today. cheryl: nicole, thank you very much. we will see you in 14 minutes. president obama fresh off of his electoral win hosting a dozen chief executives
we are alive at the pentagon with the latest. cheryl: retail sales falling as we head into the holy grail of profits. black friday and the christmas shopping season. we have two analysts with the stocks to buy the stocks to dump. dennis: nicole petallides, so the dow turned lower, nicole. nicole: at least it looks like they have been dumping them more than buying them lately, cheryl and dennis. down almost 60 points on the dow jones industrial. we recoup some losses we saw earlier today, but...
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that confirmation coming from the pentagon. we'll bring you the very latest on this story as it develops. tracy: all right. well there is much more to cover this hour including rising talk about a recession again. liz macdonald reports on the sudden spike in the economists using the "r" word next. ashley: snow. you have putting a wet blanket for any hopes of economic improvement in the northeast. weather intelligence firm, planalytics will tell us about the companies being hard hit. my word, what kind of a winter will we face? as we do at this time every day look how oil is trading. it is up 3/4 of a percent, just up over $85 a barrel. we'll be right back tracy: we have breaking news. we have more details from the pentagon. now iran fired on a u.s. predator drone back on november 1st. this again according to pentagon spokesman george little. now the drone was an international airspace and we will of course continue to bring you more as the story develops but it happened back on november 1st, not today. ashley: very good. more e
that confirmation coming from the pentagon. we'll bring you the very latest on this story as it develops. tracy: all right. well there is much more to cover this hour including rising talk about a recession again. liz macdonald reports on the sudden spike in the economists using the "r" word next. ashley: snow. you have putting a wet blanket for any hopes of economic improvement in the northeast. weather intelligence firm, planalytics will tell us about the companies being hard hit....
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with the war in iraq over and the president winding down the war in afghanistan, the pentagon faces some deep budget cuts. defense secretary leon panetta has called the cuts potentially devastating. what do you think that means and what would likely get cut? >> everything is going to get cut. if there's no agreement made across the board cuts will be made. i think you're talking about $483 billion. that's a great deal of money. and it's going to be arbitrary and it's not for nothing that secretary panetta is running around with his hair on fire. this is a guy, by the way, who made his name cutting budgets. so he knows what he's talking about, but you can't cut across the board any budget, including but especially the defense budget, without having a really devastating impact on things like flight hours, am niths, training, all the things that we need to keep the army, air force, navy, and marine corps prepared and operating. that sufficient is going to get slush eed arbitrarily. that's what panetta is worried about, what i'm worried about, and that's why there's got to be some agreement
with the war in iraq over and the president winding down the war in afghanistan, the pentagon faces some deep budget cuts. defense secretary leon panetta has called the cuts potentially devastating. what do you think that means and what would likely get cut? >> everything is going to get cut. if there's no agreement made across the board cuts will be made. i think you're talking about $483 billion. that's a great deal of money. and it's going to be arbitrary and it's not for nothing that...
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washington in the last five years or so is that much of what had traditionally been under the purview of the pentagon moved over to the cia because they had to do things like, you know, violate pakistani air space and that sort of thing. i don't tend to think it will complicate u.s. foreign policy. i don't see it leading to any change in policy. it's just the loss of a good and very bright man. >> yeah. colonel jack, officials say that general petraeus' deputy, michael morell, will serve as interim director of the cia. what do we know about michael morell? >> very well thought of inside the organization and ems where, particularly in congress and at the white house. >> a career intelligence -- >> career intelligence -- effectively a career intelligence guy. very capable, extremely steady and very well thought of. and this is, of course, the highest position he has or will ever hold. the likelihood is he will be replaced as soon as they can find somebody who is more politically oriented, more satisfactory in a political sense to the white house, but they can leave him there for a long time doing this.
washington in the last five years or so is that much of what had traditionally been under the purview of the pentagon moved over to the cia because they had to do things like, you know, violate pakistani air space and that sort of thing. i don't tend to think it will complicate u.s. foreign policy. i don't see it leading to any change in policy. it's just the loss of a good and very bright man. >> yeah. colonel jack, officials say that general petraeus' deputy, michael morell, will serve...
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the pentagon is not looking for a shooting war with the iranians. top officials are very clear about this. but what were the iranians up to? are they trying to send a signal of more aggressiveness over those critical oil shipping lanes? the pentagon, the obama administration can only let the iranians go so far. if they try this again, that's really the key question. it might have been an unmanned drone, but how far do you really let the iranians go in such a critical economic area, wolf? >> all right, barbara. i know you'll stay on top of this. thank you. let's get back to politics. right now president obama certainly owes his re-election to an extremely well-organized campaign. you know all about the rallies. you know about the political ads, the armys of volunteers. but you may not know very much about the campaign and how much it knew about you. you. our brian todd has been digging into the data crunching that helped the campaign tailor its winning strategy, data mining as it's called. >> right. >> it's a fascinating detail. explain to our viewer
the pentagon is not looking for a shooting war with the iranians. top officials are very clear about this. but what were the iranians up to? are they trying to send a signal of more aggressiveness over those critical oil shipping lanes? the pentagon, the obama administration can only let the iranians go so far. if they try this again, that's really the key question. it might have been an unmanned drone, but how far do you really let the iranians go in such a critical economic area, wolf?...
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pentagon officials are reporting iranian fighter planes shot at than unarmed american surveillance drones last week over international waters. the drill was not hit. tension in the least clearly rising on that. fox news stretch with this, analyst and author of pain at gettysburg, lieutenant-colonel ralph peters is here with us now. welcome to the program. good to see you. in the news background we are hearing president obama and the iranians may be edging towards one on one talks for the first time in thirty years and presidential assistant valerie jarrett may have been spearheading the move to get these talks going. and now this unharmed grown is fired on. what do you think is going on? >> several things are going on. the iranians are angry about the sanctions. it doesn't mean iran is going to negotiate away their nukes but they are angry. they are angry about our surveillance efforts against them even though they are in their international airspace and waters and they set up what they thought was an ambush but they screwed it up. the iranians. this. they wanted to shoot the grown down.
pentagon officials are reporting iranian fighter planes shot at than unarmed american surveillance drones last week over international waters. the drill was not hit. tension in the least clearly rising on that. fox news stretch with this, analyst and author of pain at gettysburg, lieutenant-colonel ralph peters is here with us now. welcome to the program. good to see you. in the news background we are hearing president obama and the iranians may be edging towards one on one talks for the first...
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griffin joining us for the pentagon. great reporting, jennifer, what do you know? >> we have been looking at this from denver, colorado. in that speech questions were really raised afterwards about whether he may have revealed information that she only would have known about the benghazi investigation, and commission it hadn't been revealed publicly commend commissioner smith got in from david petraeus himself. at the speech in denver, the same day by the way as fox news reports request of help were denied, she said this. >> i don't know a lot of you have heard this, but the cia had taken a couple of libyan militia members prisoners, and they they think attacking the consulate was an effort to get the prisoners back to that is still being vetted. >> being vetted by whom? that was not in any official timelines that we receive. information on the attack on the u.s. consulate was in part a strike against the cia operation, which we now know involved holding and interrogating prisoners. cheryl: what have you and adam housley learned about what was going on at the cia a
griffin joining us for the pentagon. great reporting, jennifer, what do you know? >> we have been looking at this from denver, colorado. in that speech questions were really raised afterwards about whether he may have revealed information that she only would have known about the benghazi investigation, and commission it hadn't been revealed publicly commend commissioner smith got in from david petraeus himself. at the speech in denver, the same day by the way as fox news reports request...
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as painful as it may be, as difficult as it may be, the pentagon has to step up. they have to find ways to save money, too. and i think a lot of those on the left feel that we've gone too deep into education and other programs. let's make sure this is balanced from this point forward. >> senator, before we let you go, switching topics a bit, i assume that much of today's press conference or a lot of it, too much of it, will be preoccupied with the two co-stars of "you've got mail," general petraeus and paula broadwell, but it leads to a larger issue, many people think, and that is the repeated deployments of the american military to afghanistan following on iraq and the impact it has on service families left behind and the war itself, the lingering 12-year war. what's your view on all of this? >> mike, you put your finger on it. we ought to talk about the real cost of war. it is not just in dollar terms. it certainly includes the terrible loss of life, over 5,000 americans in iraq and afghanistan. it means those who came back with injuries and the impact on indivi
as painful as it may be, as difficult as it may be, the pentagon has to step up. they have to find ways to save money, too. and i think a lot of those on the left feel that we've gone too deep into education and other programs. let's make sure this is balanced from this point forward. >> senator, before we let you go, switching topics a bit, i assume that much of today's press conference or a lot of it, too much of it, will be preoccupied with the two co-stars of "you've got...
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has trids to have a significant republican at a top position in his cabinet, before bob gates in the pentagon for the better part of the first term. i think he wants to do that again. his instinct towards not necessarily to hagel, although i think he is under consideration for one of the jobs, but it's a good time for the reboot and i think we're going to see that happen. >> it's a complicated reboot, right? we knew that clinton was leaving, geithner wants to go, we heard panetta, those were gives. as tom friedman says -- the whole middle east erupts in one giant sound and light show of civil wars, states collapsing and refugee dislocations as the keystone of the region syria gets pulled under and the disorder across the neighborhood and you were worried about the fiscal cliff. >> governor? >> i think john is right about the personnel changes. this is the time. every administration goes through it. if you're re-elected you're going to have this turnover and this is the best time for it. we didn't want it before the election. john is right you don't want it five months down the road when your
has trids to have a significant republican at a top position in his cabinet, before bob gates in the pentagon for the better part of the first term. i think he wants to do that again. his instinct towards not necessarily to hagel, although i think he is under consideration for one of the jobs, but it's a good time for the reboot and i think we're going to see that happen. >> it's a complicated reboot, right? we knew that clinton was leaving, geithner wants to go, we heard panetta, those...
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let's start with what kyra was saying, barbara starr, who is at the pentagon. she didn't know him ever to be flirtatious and said a number of his friends were describing paula broadwell as someone who is agreesive and works her magic as she ensnares men with her mayingness, i guess, all around. so i'm not really surprised that the general's friends would be spinning it this way. what insight can you give us on this? >> let me cut to the chase. kyra is absolutely right. two people involved, to say the least. when we know, soledad, is that general petraeus in the last several days has authorized personal personally several of his former aides to talk to the news media, including me. i have spoken to steve boylan, his former spokesman in iraq. steve tells me general petraeus authorized him to speak to the news media. first, let's be terribly clear. general petraeus still putting out his words, his version of events through many of his former military aides. as for miss broadwell, she will have to speak her piece when she chooses to. you know, i think that it's als
let's start with what kyra was saying, barbara starr, who is at the pentagon. she didn't know him ever to be flirtatious and said a number of his friends were describing paula broadwell as someone who is agreesive and works her magic as she ensnares men with her mayingness, i guess, all around. so i'm not really surprised that the general's friends would be spinning it this way. what insight can you give us on this? >> let me cut to the chase. kyra is absolutely right. two people...
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somebody that smart when so much of the war on terror is prosecuted by the cia, to have someone from the pentagon with his background move over to the cia and head that was incredibly lucky for the country because there are few other people who could've made that change, survived moving from one tough bureaucracy to another and be such a great intellectual and forward-thinking person about how to protect the united states. >> the other part of this, obviously, is petraeus' legacy in afghanistan, and being the author of the book on counterinsurgency in a literal sense, to what extent was the implications of that doctrine of the policy decisions that he was part of running up to this are going to be ultimately much, much more important going forward than any -- i think than to go to john's point, who knows what this is. but right now, we should also be having a pretty healthy debate about when we switched from counterterror to counterinsurgency over there. >> yeah. >>> still ahead, newt gingrich also chair of the dnc debbie wasserman schultz, more "morning joe" in a moment. [ male announcer ] human
somebody that smart when so much of the war on terror is prosecuted by the cia, to have someone from the pentagon with his background move over to the cia and head that was incredibly lucky for the country because there are few other people who could've made that change, survived moving from one tough bureaucracy to another and be such a great intellectual and forward-thinking person about how to protect the united states. >> the other part of this, obviously, is petraeus' legacy in...
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>> let's talk about how the ceos are selected in the pentagon. obviously eisenhower was coming of age in the military. you rose through the ranks differently for different reasons than you do now. rewards and punishments then versus now are radically different. aren't they? >> they are. marshall invents the modern super power military. when he takes over as army chief of staff september 1, 1939, the army has about 180,000 people, including the air force. which is part of the army then. he takes it up to 9.5 million over five years. so it is a huge expansion. he makes it look easy almost. but back then, there was a very clear system of incentivizing success. there was accountability. these days there is not accountability for generals. the raw material is not bad for generals. there are a lot of smart, ambitious, hard working guys. the problem is, there's no incentive to take risk. there's no incentive to succeed. everybody veers towards mediocrity because that's the way to get through. >> wow. tom ricks, thank you very much. the book is "the gene
>> let's talk about how the ceos are selected in the pentagon. obviously eisenhower was coming of age in the military. you rose through the ranks differently for different reasons than you do now. rewards and punishments then versus now are radically different. aren't they? >> they are. marshall invents the modern super power military. when he takes over as army chief of staff september 1, 1939, the army has about 180,000 people, including the air force. which is part of the army...
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it isn't just a triangle, it's a pentagon. that general down there, he is the top commander of our war in afghanistan. afghanistan, really? please. if our troops were really still fighting in afghanistan, don't you think we'd be hearing about that on the news instead of all this bull [ bleep ]? >> good morning. it is friday. it is friday, november 16th. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, we have the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. richard. >> good morning. >> chairman of deutsche incorporated, donny deutsch. get over it. okay? get over it. >> get over what? what are you talking about? >> all of you are in here. in washington, msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst, mark halperin. >> richard's in here? >> i don't know why. i'm serious. what's going on? also, look at this cast we have today, the author of "thomas jefferson, the art of power," historian jon meacham. is meacham here? meacham, look at him. >> lots of books. >> and willie, congratulations on your newest honor. >> than
it isn't just a triangle, it's a pentagon. that general down there, he is the top commander of our war in afghanistan. afghanistan, really? please. if our troops were really still fighting in afghanistan, don't you think we'd be hearing about that on the news instead of all this bull [ bleep ]? >> good morning. it is friday. it is friday, november 16th. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, we have the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. richard....